Working memory (WM) can be thought of as the desktop of the human brain, a set of cognitive functions that allows humans to keep track of what they are thinking, what they are doing or where they are moment to moment. It holds information long enough to make a decision, to acquire ...
working memory n. 1.A portion of digital memory reserved for data to be temporarily stored during the running of a program. Also calledworking storage. 2.The part of the mind that stores and manipulates information in the short term and is responsible for planning and carrying out behavior. ...
The term “working memory” was introduced in 1960 by cognitive psychology researchers George Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram. In 1968,Atkinson and Shiffrinproposed a multi-store model suggesting that human memory is made up of: A sensory register A short-term store (working memory or...
Andrea teaches high school AP Psychology and Online Economics and has a Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction. Cite this lesson Psychologists explain memory as learning that persists over time, but there are several proposed models for how memory works. Explore the working memory model, it...
Working Memory.(Oxford Psychology Series No. 11.) RAMcCarthy - 《Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry》 被引量: 0发表: 1987年 Making Working Memory Work: A Computational Model of Learning in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia The prefrontal cortex has long been thought to sub...
Nelson Cowan, in Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 2021 3.2 Working memory training Given the importance of working memory limitations, the idea of improving it is appealing. Modern attempts to “train” working memory initially appeared promising (for instance in children with ADHD; Klingberg,...
Psychological labels may have boxed neuroscience into deeper complexity, hardening new ways to understand the brain in benefit to mental health care. If one aspect of the memory is working, or holding information for cognitive tasks in mind, what other aspect of the memory isn’t working?
The psychological concepts of working memory and attention are widely used in the cognitive and neuroscientific literatures. Perhaps because of the interdisciplinary appeal of these concepts, the same terms are often used to mean very different things. D
Working Memory in Context (Psychology, Hove, Sussex, 2001). Google Scholar Miyake, A. & Shah, P. (eds) Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control (Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1999). Book Google Scholar Conway, A. R. A., Jarrold, C., ...